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Posted on 10/06/2014 1:23:19 PM PDT by upchuck
Edited on 10/06/2014 1:27:07 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied appeals from five states seeking to preserve gay-marriage bans. The move doesn
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First up will be Lindsey Graham and his longtime pal.
The crying you hear on Capitol Hill is coming from Lindsey Graham’s office.
Just say no.
Well, now South Carolina is in a group of 20 states which still are not compelled to allow homosexual marriage. Today’s decision by the Supreme Court, to step aside and allow lower court rulings on marriage to take place, will allow homosexual marriage to spread from 19 states to as many as 30 states, effective in coming days and weeks. Some marriages already happened today.
The courts are spreading homosexual marriage. How many states have allowed homosexual marriage through the legislative process? The biggest one I know of is New York. I believe New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine and Maryland took legislative action . Any others?
Would be interesting to see, but I think the majority of states now allowing homosexual marriage allow it because it was forced on them by court order.
The government should just get out of the business of marriage completely. This would be a non issue, if not for laws surrounding marriage in the first place.
If consenting adults have a desire to be married to one another, they should be able to call up the pastor, cardinal, shaman, or whatever - they’re married, and that’s the end of it.
This doesn’t need to be so complicated. The government involvement makes it that way, because of all of the legal ramifications.
RE: South Carolina: Gay marriage not immediately likely in SC
All you need is ONE ( count them, ONE ) Federal judge to overturn any referendum and no matter how many millions vote not to recognize gay marriage, it WILL still be recognized.
This just arrived in my e-mails today which goes along with this thread.
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Wisconsin folded like cheap lawn chairs. Both Walker and the AG will not protect the vote of the people.
But I’m supposed to get out and vote because, you know, the Des are so scary.
There isn’t much Walker and the AG can do. Courts overturn the votes of the people anyway - just like they did in CA. You are being cynical for no reason at all. What do you expect them to do? Spend hundreds of thousands of tax-payer dollars to go to court and have the ban overruled by a liberal judge?
Maryland, Minnesota, Maine and Washington State passed gay marriage by popular vote (i.e., in referenda). Gay marriage was passed by votes of the Legislatures in Connecticut, Washington DC, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois and Vermont. The New Jersey legislature passed gay marriage, but Gov. Christie vetoed it (but then failed to defend a lawsuit seeking gay marriage from the courts).
South Carolina is part of the 4th Circuit, which struck down Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage. So any federal judge in South Carolina is now bound by precedent to strike down South Carolina’s ban, until and unless SCOTUS steps in.
No, in Nov 2012 Minnesota voters rejected a constitutional amendment which would have banned same sex marriage. At the same time they returned control of both the Minnesota House and Senate to the Democrats. In May 2013, the Minnesota legislature passed same sex marriage and the Democratic governor signed it. So, enacted by the legislature, not by popular vote.
All Walker have to do is state that Wisconsin will not comply with any federal judge’s ruling striking down the state’s constitution amendment defining and upholding marriage in his state (There is no gay marriage “ban,” stop being a tool of the Left). No millions of dollars or lawsuits needed.
...and the federal judge will hold him contempt of court and send the U.S. Marshals to arrest him.
They voted for gay marriage in Maine.
Laws were passed legalizing it in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maryland Vermont and New York.
In addition to those states, they passed laws legalizing gay marriage in Delaware, Illinois and Hawaii. They also passed same-sex marriage in Washington state, which was upheld by referendum.
Outside of those 10 states, the "right" has been conferred by the courts, despite outright Constitutional bans in many of those other 20 states. Quite odious if you ask me. It's one thing if the people or the people through their legislators change a state law. It's another if judges meddle in a state right.
But nooo, in order to placate a tiny minority and a narrative successfully fabricated by the Left, they are simply bending over, figuratively and probably literally too.
Oh, is that all he has to do? Gee, maybe you should run for governor.
There is no historical precedent, nothing in the Constitution about homo marriage. It is a completely fabricated issue born about 10 years ago designed to destroy traditional marriage and religion by out of control leftists. Period.
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